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  • February 1, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    Top Gaining Firms: Lateral Partner Hires

    After a soft 2010, the lateral market picked up steam in 2011. Here is where the top-gaining firms got their new hires. If laterals arrived in a group of five or more, we named the firm they

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  • January 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

    McDermott Joins Big Law's Shift to Merit-Based Pay

    McDermott, Will & Emery has joined Big Law's latest bandwagon: The 1,000-lawyer firm announced on Tuesday that it will be shifting its associates

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  • April 23, 2010 | The American Lawyer

    Countrywide Reportedly Agrees to Biggest-Yet Settlement of Subprime Securities Class Action

    The Los Angeles Daily Journal (subscription required) is reporting that Countrywide has agreed to a $600 million settlement of a securities class action accu

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  • August 10, 2006 | Alm

    Associate Pay at Big Firms Soars By $10K in 2006

    Salaries for beginning associates at big firms soared by $10,000 this year, marking the first increase in pay for new lawyers since 2000, according to the National Association for Law Placemen

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  • January 30, 2012 | Legaltech News

    Freeloading Lawyers

    For decades, law students have received free access to Lexis and Westlaw as a perk of being a student. Lexis and Westlaw offer this free access to further students' education and, presumably,

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  • June 4, 2013 | Legaltech News

    Stanford Law: Vortex for Legal Tech Startups

    Stanford University is a legendary breeding ground for startups — Silicon Valley giants Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., and Cisco Systems Inc. all came out of the Palo Alto, Calif., institu

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  • March 4, 2013 | Legaltech News

    Tech Circuit: Bay Bridge Edition

    LegalTech New York is always inspiring, with the opportunity to see so many people, products, services, and seminars over three deliciously-overloaded days. It's like consuming a giant hot fu

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  • February 20, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn Is Suspended An assistant district attorney in Brooklyn was suspended last week for allegedly giving sensitive documents from her office

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  • February 7, 2006 | Legal Times

    D.C. Firms View China With Caution

    Political winds shape business plans, and in 1994 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld scented something in the air. With the fall of the Soviet Union and a flood of outside capital into the former c

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  • Quan v. Computer Sciences Corporation

    Publication Date: 2010-09-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2010-09-30
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrice L. Bishop, Stull, Stull & Brody, Los Angeles, California; Edwin J. Mills, Michael J. Klein, Stull, Stull & Brody, New York, New York, for plaintiffs-appellants-cross-appellees.
    for defendant: Charles C. Jackson, Thomas F. Hurka, Christopher J. Boran, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Chicago, Illinois; Dean J. Kitchens, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Los Angeles, California; Perrie M. Weiner, Edward D. Totino, Joshua Briones, DLA Piper, L.L.P., Los Angeles, California; Paul Blankenstein, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees-cross-appellants.
    Case Number: No. 09-56190 No. 09-56248

    Cite as 10 C.D.O.S. 12697FREDERICO QUAN, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; WALTER GRAY, individually and on behalf of all others simi